Here’s Hilary Clinton’s rousing speech handing the baton over to Barack.
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On a podcast interview with the Guardian, Jimmy Carter says that making Hillary Clinton his candidate for VP wold be a big mistake for Obama. What we really have here is one former president getting downright catty about another.
Top 10 things heard in Hillary Clinton’s campaign headquarters.
Sound bite: “No. 2. It’s not the end — you can always get fat and make a global warming documentary.”
John McCain reads his Teleprompter from New Orleans as he welcomes Obama to the race and defends Hillary against that darned media.
She comes in summa cum laude. No cigar.
Barack Obama says that if elected president he would talk to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Both Hillary Clinton and John McCain say that’s a bad idea. According to a recent Gallup poll (May 19-21), a majority of Americans favor Obama’s approach. 59% think chatting up Ahmadinejad is a “good idea.”
A disgruntled, gravel-voiced Hillary Cinton supporter makes a reasoned argument about race and gender outside the DNC Rules Committee meeting. (Geraldine Ferraro would be so proud.)
Sound Bite: “The Democrats are throwing the election away. For what? An inadequate black male?”
The final two Democratic primaries are scheduled for tomorrow and Hillary Clinton is going down fighting. Her latest ad pushes the popular vote argument. (Ask President Gore how well that’s going to work.)
Sound Bite: “17 million Americans have voted for Hillary Clinton. More than for any primary candidate in history.”
Harold Ickes, representing Hillary Clinton, at the DNC committee meeting yesterday:
Sound bite: “Is the process flawed? You bet your ass it’s flawed. It’s hard to find an election in the United States that’s not flawed.”
Sound bite: “Mrs. Clinton has instructed me to reserve her rights to take this to the credentials committee.:
One more (last?) Hillary ad, this one bragging that she is the only candidate (how many are there?) who voted against the Bush energy bill and the only one who’ll get health care coverage for all.
Sundays are never dull at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. Reverend Jeremiah Wright may have retired but Father Michael Pfleger picked up the slack last week when he took the pulpit as guest preacher. He talks about exposing “white entitlement and supremacy” and lays into Hillary Clinton.
Sound Bite: “I really believe that she just always thought this is mine. ‘I’m Bill’s wife. I’m white. And this is mine. I just got to get up and step into the plate.’ And then out of nowhere came ‘Hey, I’m Barack Obama.’ And she said ‘Oh damn! Where did you come from? I’m white. I’m entitled. There’s a black man stealing my show.”
Judging by the standing ovation, the congregation seemed to enjoy the sermon.
Tucker Carlson says that Hillary Clinton is still the strongest Democratic candidate and argues that the A-word gaffe was a nonstory and a case in point in the argument that media are biased toward Obama.
Sound bite: “This is exactly the kind of story that makes people hate us. It is a story about nothing.”
Speaking from the back of a red pickup truck, Bill Clinton says Hillary’s “winning the general election today and he’s not, according to all the evidence.”
Sound Bite: “They’re trying to get her to cry uncle before the Democratic Party has to decide what to do in Florida and Michigan.”
Speaking to reporters on the campaign plane, Barack Obama called Hillary Clinton’s RFK assassination remark “unfortunate” but said “we should put it behind us.”
Sound Bite: “I don’t think that Senator Clinton intended anything by it.”
A lot of folks are upset about Tonya Harding’s, er, Hillary Clinton’s remarks referencing the RFK assassination when explaining why she’s staying in the race. But MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann is REALLY upset. Check out his nine-minute rant.
